This is another quick movie I made to explain how to upload files & folders to your opencart store, as it seems people are often confused by what is assumed to be a simple task.

In opencart, extensions are dynamically loaded into the list when the controller file is found in the correct folder. If you don't see them in the admin area where they should be, then it simply means module isn't uploaded to the correct location. Follow this video to see how to ensure all files get put into the proper place.

This is probably the first video the entire world should watch when they first get connected to the internet as it applies not only to OpenCart, but ANY and EVERY site script as FTP is something that all sites use. This should be committed to the general knowledge part of your memory.

This also works well with SFTP (WinSCP client) for those who have ssh access to their box and don't run FTP.

Alternatively you can download the opencart provided zip, remove the stuff you don't want and set the root of the directory to match the root of your opencart web directory and rezip the contents. Now upload the newly created zip to the root of your opencart directory and unzip it right on the server. A little quicker then uploading a bunch files over the network.

Calcite wrote:Nice video, just don't try it with a Mac if you need to keep any files in the original folders!

Mac OsX overwrites folders but also deletes all the original contents so if the upgrade does not iclude all files then any not upgraded in the original folder get trashed.

Don't ask how I know this

Yea, I used to mention this in my previous videos.. but figured Mac wasn't really used as a web server often enough to bother mentioning.. plus out of spite, if you are using mac, I feel that you need to get your files overwritten so that you have the enlightenment to complain to Apple for being morons and leaving this terribly unintuitive file copy design in their OS for so long, despite all the forums and articles all over the web condemning apple for this.

1.5.2.x with the latest svn patch found here:http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... 23#p258004
That is always going to be the most stable.
The patch will be updated as more bugs are found, and I am almost done with an automatic update module so you won't need to go to the site to get it.

Another Mac user here, and I used Textwrangler too but thankfully filezilla copies the files over without deleting or overwriting the files it shouldn't (or doesn't to my knowledge but not had a problem yet with it!)

Qphoria wrote:if you are using mac, I feel that you need to get your files overwritten so that you have the enlightenment to complain to Apple for being morons and leaving this terribly unintuitive file copy design in their OS for so long, despite all the forums and articles all over the web condemning apple for this.

(OFFTOPIC) 1000000% correct. But... ha! like Apple is going to care! It's the same retardation as with iTunes deleting the contents of an iPhone/iPad when synced to a new computer. Because while the word "synchronize" means "make contents IDENTICAL" in, I don't know, EVERY SINGLE LANGUAGE and EVERY SINGLE INDUSTRY on the whole damn planet - in AppleWorld, it means "Not make contents identical, but just delete everything, because... because screw you, that's why."

Over 1,1 million Google results for this EXACT problem. Have they ever fixed it? Nooooo. Will they ever fix it? Not until people learn that having shiny crap with rounded corners is NOT a good trade-off for technology that WORKS.